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  1. Re:I'm sick of this on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    Lasers do not cause Aircraft to crash.

    People cause Aircraft to crash.

  2. Re:Just use filters on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 2

    Googles won't work, and neither will a filtering windshield. They'll just obscure vision. The wavelengths are all over the spectrum. The only thing that would filter them all is a piece of steel. Tough to land that way.

    What if you just used steel windshields, along with Googles Earth to find out where you're at? I don't see any problem with

  3. Re:convex lens on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 0

    You think a "lay-ser" beam is divergent? Have you ever considered

    • This thread
    • Your mom's thighs
    • The hemispheres of my skull as the zombie slashdotters attack me after this post
  4. Re:PUSKUNOV is the best on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    Wow. I remember finding a copy in the library when I was studying for the IB Diploma, and I subsequently wrote my IB final thesis on Lyapunov stability, a concept I found in Volume II.

  5. Re:Que the norovirus jokes on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 2

    I always thought you que the first one, then queue the second one, then queueue the third...

  6. Re:Not a Real Question on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 2

    WTF does STEM even mean?

    It means the branch of biology where you grow new kinds of cells from old ones.

  7. Re:underwater ridges on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Don't put in any new ideas for the Russian government... especially with a name like Lomonosov, yeah, that really has the good old Danish ring to it...

  8. Re: Helium and the density of the disc on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    There's always cooling by radiation, though it might not be enough with such shiny surfaces.

  9. Re:Trashcan on Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the GPS isn't very good by modern standards (even cheap phones will use GLONASS as well now)

    Let's have some references before turning this into a USA vs. Russia fistfight. Oh, and Galileo FTW :D

  10. Re:Home mitigation? on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 1

    Should be the other way round - the atmospheric pressure is higher in the basement...

    I guess the beer experiences a shock upon the extreme pressure delta of getting upstairs. Where exactly does the OP open the beers?

  11. Re:Home mitigation? on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 2

    Horizontality is definitely an issue for bottle-fermenting beers. You'll mess up the yeasty sediment when turning it around.

    In my experience, extreme cold is only a problem if you get down to freezing temperatures. I've blown up a few bottles by trying to cool them down faster in a freezer. What happens upon freezing is also great for the nucleation of gas bubbles; hence the cloudy appearance of homemade ice cubes, and the measurements of ancient CO2 levels from the bubbles in antarctic ice.

  12. Re:There is no vaccine for the worst diseases on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on a general level, but I still think it's a nasty idea to use organic compounds of heavy metals as vaccine additives. You'd think there were saner alternatives by now.

    Of course, the amounts are probably minuscule to other sources of heavy metal poisoning we have around. This IMHO is the biggest issue about non-scientific reactions -- hysterical focus on $some_single_chemical and ignoring all other dangers and matters of scale. In my scientific education, I think one key thing has been learning how to deal with uncertainty.

    Case in point: getting hysterical about aluminium in deodorants, and switching to alternatives such as crystal deodorant... which are 100% alum. Of course, the real issue is probably with specific compounds such as aluminium chlorohydrate - no need to ban the entire aluminium industry for that. And don't even get me started on genetic modification which has been going around for about 10000 years...

  13. Re:You are not in control on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 1

    In other words, men = O(deer).

  14. So it's their last driver release ever?

  15. Re:Don't use Bleeding Edge Kernels on Linux 3.18 Released, Lockup Bug Still Present · · Score: 1

    Yup, I've used Pine since the 1990s and I continue to use Alpine.

    "I use pine - not because its necessarily the greatest email reader ever, but because I'm used to it, and it does what I need it to do with a minimum of fuzz." -- Linus Torvalds

  16. Re:.50 WHAT? on Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested · · Score: 1

    If you really must know, I got mine for a .357 per GiB.

  17. Re:Don't use Bleeding Edge Kernels on Linux 3.18 Released, Lockup Bug Still Present · · Score: 1

    I like pine kernels in my salad, and I PINE for the good old days when men where men and used real email clients, you sensitivity-challenged clod!

  18. Re:Algorithms on Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    You can implement a 3D game in Python, but its interpreter and memory management is going to make it much less efficient than the same game in C++.

    IMHO that is a rather unfortunate example. I'm sure people have written 3D games in Python with not so bad results, because the 3D heavylifting is done on a GPU anyway (via PyOpenGL).

  19. Re: the key formula scientists use on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    The number of data points for "planets with intelligent life" equals 1. I have a model that fits this data perfectly, I dare you to improve on it.

  20. Re:Most people write far less. on Consumer-Grade SSDs Survive Two Petabytes of Writes · · Score: 1

    Servers, depending on their usage platters could have a problem

    FTFY.

  21. Re:'Sextuplets' on Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice · · Score: 1

    A sextuplet is a tight-knit group of 6; typically used to refer to the birth of 6 kids together.

    I guess that's why they call it "nitpicking".

  22. Re:horrible brand on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    It was originally called guerilla glass, to refer to the marketing strategy.

  23. Re:"Two" times, not ten times on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    News for nerds, remember? Ten is simply the base-2 representation of the same number that two represents in base-10. It's exactly the same statement.

    So is that base two too? I can understand a reference to seeing "2" in a binary datastream when talking about bending strength, but I could never really get past second base myself.

  24. Ha

    /half nelson

  25. Re:SNOB on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 2

    WTF? Isn't it rather the other way around? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...